The Orange Head

Looks like orange is becoming teh nu pink™...

Good stuff there, Indigo!

ok, that last one looks a little weird, though, with a threshold and set alpha, you could maybe separate the white cracks out from everything else and just have them on a transparent background, which you could then apply to other images... yes, no?

Yeah I agree Craig, the light cracks don't shine through as much as the mud ones (hahaha not funny). Maybe with rays of light coming out of the cracks, or some kind of bloom, it would look better. Also, your transparency idea is interesting, but it wouldn't work with such tiny cracks.

SOOOO...I widened the cracks and swapped the "bias noise" with a frame, and I must say, the result is quite smashing! (I hate my jokes)

looking good - a bit of displacement or threshold might help

Thnx Craig. And Betis, if you don't mind, I think I'll play around with your shadows filter to make giant rock shafts in perspective (refer to here.)

Also, I've begun to attempt to learn Blender! This is my first 3d modeling and rendering program (unless you count my demo of Bryce), and so far I find it really cool, albeit having one hell of a learning curve. Fortunately, there are tutorials and a manual on the Blender website to help guide me.

My first original half-way decent model (outside of tutorials) is...
here it comes...
an APPLE!
And the best part is...
the suspense...
All the textures were made in FF!!!

So yeah, I made an apple, chosen because it's a relatively simple shape with only three parts (fruit, stem, and leaf). The texture for the fruit was a mod of ionic69's Apples of Botox. It doesn't look terrible by itself, but it obviously looks a lot better on the apple. Tex:

The apple, using the above texture for the fruit, Kochubey's wood for the stem (I added a gradient to make the stem fade to green at the bottom), and ThreeDee's Leaf for...you guessed it.. the leaf! (after some annoying rotating and resizing).

See? Don't 2D textures really look different in 3D renderers? I wonder if this issue should be addressed a little more, because 3D texturing has got to be a major use of FF.

And we do have a wind blur in the library, as well as a pretty unconventional one here. If yours is any different from these two, then I would love to see it!

indigo, you could have told me that was a photo of an apple and i would have believed it, except for the stem. the stem is a bit too straight and rigid looking and the taper is a bit too exact. but, other than that, wow!

I think your next project should be your avatar.

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Betis wrote: Carl... why did you change your name?

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Betis wrote: It used to be Kraellin. Or something similarly spelled.

not quite getting you on this

LOL

Crapa's what? Wind Blur? Yeah, I didn't steal the idea, but really it's just the best way to do custom blurs, so we all have the same logic.

Yeah, my mind mixed Craig with Carl... see... yeah. *facepalm*

Anyway, I'm awake now.

Same filter applied to an image of my doggie , except only one color, no AA, and a few other minor changes:

Filter looks good and seeing your a dog lover all is forgiven

uhm, no. too wild and scattered. see 3d's lightning filter

but, those 'cracks' can certainly have lots of other uses.

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Kraellin wrote: see 3d's lightning filter

How could I miss either of them? That's why I added the clouds. I tried turning my lightning into an effect filter, but the results aren't that great at the moment.

Meanwhile, I a filter that does fluorescent ceiling panels, such as the ones in my basement, and I think the filter looks pretty darn close. Anyone else care to shed some light? (there I go again...)

oh, i like that, indigo, the ceiling panels. i'm assuming you put in the dirt/smudge/bugs on purpose. can they be removed, if desired?

Hmmm, I don't see a glow, and without my inner knowledge of how your filter works, I think it being a surface filter is hindering you from doing a glow.

If you need an example of a glow I'm talking about, see my filter. Of course, that's me being picky, but it should probably be a control.

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Indigo Ray wrote: Anyone else care to shed some light?

now you just need it to flicker irritatingly ............... why are the two outer tubes dull?

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Betis wrote: underwater sunrays

could look good

Personally, I don't see the glow, but I haven't seen one of those lights in about a month, so what you have now is more realistic than an actual glow that I want. So, don't mind me.